Archbishop Angelo Vincenzo Zani

Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Apostolic Archive

Titular Archbishop of Volturnum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Mar 1950		Born
20 Sep 1975	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brescia, Italy
9 Nov 2012	62.6	Appointed	Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
9 Nov 2012	62.6	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Volturnum
6 Jan 2013	62.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Volturnum
5 Jun 2022	72.1	Ceased	Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
26 Sep 2022	72.5	Appointed	Archivist of the Vatican Apostolic Archive
26 Sep 2022	72.5	Appointed	Librarian of the Vatican Library
28 Mar 2025	75.0	Retired	Archivist of the Vatican Apostolic Archive
28 Mar 2025	75.0	Retired	Librarian of the Vatican Library

MicroData Summary
Angelo Vincenzo Zani
Archbishop Angelo Vincenzo Zani
(born 24 Mar 1950)
Archivist Emeritus of Vatican Apostolic Archive

Event Place
Birth Place Pralboino, Diocese of Brescia, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Archbishop through the Vatican Apostolic Archive.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Luigi Morstabilini †
Bishop of Brescia
Principal Consecrator:
Pope Benedict XVI
(Joseph Ratzinger †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B.
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski †
Cardinal-Priest of San Nicola in Carcere

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Benedict XVI (1977)
(Joseph Ratzinger †)
Bishop Josef Stangl † (1957)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Josef Schneider † (1955)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Joseph Cardinal Wendel † (1941)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Bishop Ludwig Sebastian † (1917)
Bishop of Speyer
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Friedrich Josef von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Antonio Saverio De Luca † (1845)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Carlo Bresciani (2014)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Pralboino, Diocese of Brescia, Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 263696791
WikiData: Q536776

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 9 Nov 2012
c34: CB, 3 Jan 2013
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 212, Number 17,624
ab: Bollettino, 26 Sep 2022
bpd: AM, 24 Oct 2022
r: Bollettino, 28 Mar 2025

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